After the first Trans Gay Migrant Caravan formed in 2017, LGBTQ migrants have become a more visible demographic among those making their way to or through Mexico. But they face a “triple vulnerability,” according to Dana Graber Ladek, head of the UN’s International Organization for Migration. They are not only stigmatized for their migrant status and sexual orientation, but their “irregular” travels make LGBTQ migrants challenging to document. NBC News has more.

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#Mexico #Migrant #Migration #Border #LGBTQ #Trans #GayRights

LGBTQ migrants face 'triple vulnerability' as a group in Mexico aims to help them

Mexico has become one of the largest migratory corridors in the world, and the Organization for Refuge, Asylum and Migration (ORAM) is spearheading a campaign in Mexico to raise money to specifically help LGBTQ migrants, who face added discrimination…

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Good thing I came early to the airport as I had to wait about half an hour while the Dutch border folks racially profiled an Arab man traveling with his elderly relative who was using a wheelchair.

I guess old habits die hard.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-64647272

(In case you were wondering if things are perfect here, they’re not. The bad is the Netherlands perpetually feels about five minutes away from being a police state.)

#netherlands #schipol #racialProfiling #border

Dutch border police told to stop ethnic profiling

Campaigners hail the ruling after judges find that profiling was used without justification.

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The #Immigration Story Nobody Is Talking About

The #UnitedStates does need a more orderly #border. It also needs more #immigrants, who are critical to the country’s #economic strength.

#law #policy #labor #economy
https://www.newyorker.com/news/the-financial-page/the-immigration-story-nobody-is-talking-about

“This is not a response to the high number of crossings, it is a purely political move to seem tough on the #border in advance of the debates.”

More migrants are being stranded at the U.S.-Mexico border under Biden’s executive order. https://www.texasobserver.org/immigration-asylum-biden-order/

#Mexico #immigration #Biden #news #politics #USpol #HumanRights

Suspending Asylum - The Texas Observer

Dayana and her family are trying to cross from Juárez hours after President Joe Biden announced an executive order on Tuesday that will suspend asylum at the southern border.

^{Anna-Catherine Brigida (The Texas Observer)}

A drone view shows the U.S.-Mexico border wall, in Jacumba Hot Springs, #California, U.S. June 3, 2024. REUTERS/Go Nakamura

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#POTUS #Biden Issues #ExecutiveOrder to Temporarily Seal the #Border to #Asylum Seekers

The move shows how drastically #immigration #politics have shifted in the #UnitedStates. The ACLU said it planned to challenge the order in court.

#law
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/06/04/us/politics/biden-executive-order-border-asylum.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare&u2g=c&pvid=842FAC82-74E9-4568-964E-17F923835645&sgrp=c-cb

#POTUS #Biden is expected to sign an executive order on Tuesday allowing him to temporarily seal the #UnitedStates #border with #Mexico to migrants when crossings surge, a move that would suspend longtime protections for #asylum seekers in the #UnitedStates.

#law #Immigration #ClimateMigration #ClimateChange
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/06/03/us/politics/biden-immigration-asylum-order.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare&u2g=c&pvid=E8A3F2D3-4A21-4554-8914-B2B9246E193C&sgrp=c-cb

Crossing a historic threshold, Mexicans appear poised to elect a woman as president this Sunday but to otherwise leave politics largely unchanged. Reprinted with permission from palabra. and Puente News Collaborative: https://www.texasobserver.org/in-mexicos-historic-vote-politics-are-little-changed/

#news #politics #Mexico #democracy #election2024 #border

In Mexico’s Historic Vote, Politics Are Little Changed

A Puente poll represents a rare survey of the Mexican public by U.S. media.

^{Eduardo García (The Texas Observer)}